[midwinter]

Hi all.

Is there any way to get Q3A to either a) span both of my monitors or b) only appear and one and leave the other one working?

Thanks in advance

Scott

[Gul Banana]

I know it's possible, because I've seen it done - unfortunately, I didn't ask the guy how.

[Slaveway]

Originally posted by midwinter:
Hi all.

Is there any way to get Q3A to either a) span both of my monitors or b) only appear and one and leave the other one working?

Thanks in advance

Scott

I have a dual monitor setup and have no problem with Quake3.
The game always runs on my GF4 card and not the PCIRadeon7000.
(Dual800, 10.2)
Having the game run on both monitors would be great, but impossible with PCI and AGP.
You would never be able to get the same framerates on both cards.
I wonder if such a hack would be possible with three PCI cards???
That would be a sweet setup spanning three 19" monitors.

[Jansar]

I have a 23" Apple Cinema HD Display and a 17" Compaq P75 CRT connected to my GF4Ti card. When I start up Quake, it just blanks out the CRT and plays like it normally does on the LCD.

(and I cannot go higher than a 1024 x 768 resolution in Q3...grrr)

[Vash]

Jansar, why can't you get a resolution any higher than 1024x768? In Quake you can use any resolution by just changing "r_customheight" and "r_customwidth" to whatever you please. Then just "r_mode" to -1.

[Jansar]

Originally posted by Vash:
Jansar, why can't you get a resolution any higher than 1024x768? In Quake you can use any resolution by just changing "r_customheight" and "r_customwidth" to whatever you please. Then just "r_mode" to -1.

I believe that Quake 3 does not recognize my Apple Cinema HD Display (since it's widescreen - 1900 x 1200 resolution), so it fails to go to a higher resolution. It's annoying. By the way, I set those parameters that you specified and it ended up setting the game's defaults (an ugly 640 x 480 at 16 bit). I don't think there's support for this monitor.

[Vash]

That's weird, on my 22" i have it ste to 1600x1024 and it works perfectly. Sometimes freezes for no reason, but otherwise fine.

[edddeduck]

Originally posted by Vash:
That's weird, on my 22" i have it ste to 1600x1024 and it works perfectly. Sometimes freezes for no reason, but otherwise fine.

Runs fine on my 22" too...

Cheers Edwin

[Jansar]

Originally posted by edddeduck:


Runs fine on my 22" too...

Cheers Edwin

Have you tweaked it at all then? Because I have a 23" instead of a 22" and I wouldn't know if there really was any difference in proportion.

[edddeduck]

First try a lower wide screen resolution.

Also which card do you have MX or Ti?

Where did you alter the config file?

Cheers Edwin

[Jansar]

Originally posted by edddeduck:
First try a lower wide screen resolution.

Also which card do you have MX or Ti?

Where did you alter the config file?

Cheers Edwin

I altered the "q3config.cfg" file in the baseq3 folder. My vid card is a GeForce 4 Ti 4600. Hope that helps.

-Jarrod

[edddeduck]

Originally posted by Jansar:


I altered the "q3config.cfg" file in the baseq3 folder. My vid card is a GeForce 4 Ti 4600. Hope that helps.

-Jarrod

OK here goes...

A little confusing to do, but not too hard. Go to "your home folder/Library/Application Support/Quake 3/baseq3/"

In there is a file called "q3config.cfg."

Open this with a text editor such as BBEdit or SimpleText.

Then Change the line called "r_customheight" to 1200
and "r_customwidth" to 1900.

Then change "r_mode" to "-1".

If some of these lines do not exist, then just make them at the bottom of the text file. Launch Quake back up and you should have widescreen. The only problem is you can't see the id logo at the opening of quake, so don't think you messed up.

This is a quick guide I used. If this does not work I will mail you my cfg to try out.

Cheers Edwin